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When Haydn returned to Vienna in 1792 after his wildly successful first visit to London, the sixty-year-old composer was the most revered musician in the world. His youngfriend Mozart had been dead less than a year, and a new firebrand had arrived in Vienna who was eager to fill the void as the city’s ranking keyboard virtuoso. That young musician was Beethoven, wholeft his hometown of Bonn for Vienna at the age of 21with this blessing from his patron:“May you receive Mozart’s spirit from the hands of Haydn.”Beethoven did take somelessons from Haydn, but their tutelage was short-lived; by the end of the decade, the relationship of master and pupil had morphed into outright competition, with Beethoven bringing the battle to Haydn’s home turf: the string quartet.

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